This is the problem for most people I think. You go to Best Buy, check out the VR, kinda cringe at the price but think "it's pretty cool, maybe I'll do it". Then you find out you need to spend another $1k on a new PC (unless you got something fairly recently and can get away with just a new video card). Game over man.
I think VR may be maturing at precisely the wrong moment. PC upgrade/replacement cycles are longer than ever these days, and I don't know if VR companies will sell enough to still be around when enough people have adequate hardware.
I would guess that the impact was not that great. Given the state of AMD processors pre-Ryzen, I think any AMD fan that wanted one had had one for a long time. I think the larger impact was to Intel's sales. I know I was thinking about a new system late last year, and was looking at an i7. Then I remembered Ryzen and after catching up on the news it really made sense to wait. Especially since I could compare to Kaby Lake. Ryzen 5, 6 and 7 are out, and Intel has botched the i9/X release so thoroughly that it's clear they were somehow caught with their pants down and have nothing good on the near horizon. I suspect that many fence sitters like myself will pull the trigger on a Ryzen system.
It's long overdue, and I will admit I'm enjoying seeing Intel scramble after years of incremental improvements. I saw just the other day that Dell is now selling Ryzen equipped Inspiron gaming PC's. Looks like all Ryzen 7 at the moment, but it's a good sign that they didn't just restrict Ryzen to the Alienware line. Will be curious to see if they add SKUs with Ryzen 5 and 6 processors later. Prices are reasonable too.
When I get around to it, I'll get or build a Ryzen 7 box. While it's not the 'fastest' gaming CPU, it's miles ahead of my Core i5 650 and the multithreaded performance for video encoding has my mouth watering. I'm happy AMD didn't fixate on gaming performance. I'll gladly take 5-10% less raw speed in games to get massive boosts in other uses.
Still, I'm amazed at the mileage I've gotten out of my old Core system over the last 6 or 7 years... SSD, 16GB RAM and a video card upgrade every couple of years and it's only in the last year it's gotten hard to get a good speed/quality balance with graphics options at 1920x1080.
Oh jeez, get a grip. Trump is not against "immigration". What he is rightfully against are illegal immigrants (which this country is much more lenient with than most other countries), and abuses of the immigration laws. He's also against just waving through people coming from parts of the world known to harbor terrorists. On that note, he's only 'banning' people coming from specific airports within specific countries. That generally leaves the other 2398702348092384 airports around the world untouched. As far as his Chinese connections... well, we might as well shut down any company that does business with, ohhh let's say Foxconn, right?
Trumps immigration stance is actually pretty simple "we have laws, passed by administrations on both sides, let's enforce them for a change.
exactly! these factories build to spec, give them a price point, and they will build something to meet it. it's entirely possible to get good quality, and a low price from them, but it requires someone knowledgeable about the desired product to negotiate the spec, sacrificing quality or polish where it's not needed, and making sure critical pieces are not junk.
"by simply guessing that supply chains for all of their parts will be present."
I'm sure it has occurred to them, but that doesn't mean there is no risk. In most cases, a given part for traditional ICE vehicles could be made by many different suppliers. Lose a supplier, for whatever reason, and you can pretty much guarantee that another will be able to fill the void. There are considerably fewer players in the market for the kind of batteries these cars require, and a disruption could leave them with incomplete cars that they can't sell. It would be like Ford being unable to get engine blocks at any price. Remember the flooding in SE Asia a few years back that took a big bite out of hard disk production? Drive prices soared for at least a year until production got back to normal. Now flood out a major battery supplier. I think most hybrid/EV cars are priced at just about the most they can get away with. Will companies like Volvo be laying in a surplus of batteries to mitigate a loss of supply or will they stick to JIT and be screwed?
Volvo's experiment will be closely watched by rest of the auto industry I suspect.
it's so difficult that it was done with 1960's technology. the rocket science involved was solved a long time ago. the only thing missing these days is the will and the money.
as long as the primary entry point involves things like opening emails and clicking attachments, things that don't usually happen on servers, it's a lot easier to target the average consumer.
" but you can't just give a company that has nothing but concepts billions of dollars/euros to deploy a technology that hasn't even a working prototype"
Except this happens all the time in software. Not surprising someone like Musk expects it to happen with every pet hardware project he tries.
If these schools and profs want to get an early look at the kinds of problems they can expect when a massive swell in IT courses happens, look no further than India. What problems do they have? How do they address them (or fail to)? Seems there are regular articles on mass cheating in Indian IT curriculum. For the sake of fairness, they could research the MSCE schools in the early 2000's. I guess my point is that as surprised as they seem to be, there is still time to get ahead of the most obvious problems if they do some research.
This could just be an epic effort to taint the intel. Just by threatening this kind of attack, they are causing fear, economic damage, civil unrest. Actually blowing up a plane is just a bonus. In the meantime, while all eyes are on the most difficult and best protected targets, they can move more easily on soft targets like concerts...
"but if somebody goes into a hardware store and buys hundreds of dollars' worth of nails using cash, that should raise red flags"
And now you're chasing the tools, which is futile. a guy with a bandsaw and some steel plate could make a pile of "nails". requires no special skills, no suspicious items, just patience. When it's over we say "Ah HAH! they use XYZ this time" and we flag XYZ. if you want to flag everything that can be used to harm people when propelled by explosive force, you're going to have a long list of common items. Guns are hard to come by in the UK? People get killed by knives and cars. These people want to kill, and they will find a way to kill, it's as simple as that.
As long as people keep dancing around the issue that they are not like us, this will never end. Some viewpoints are just not compatible and can never be reconciled. Let the middle east follow their own course. They don't HAVE to be part of the global community if they don't want to and we should stop trying to convince them.
MEMORY CARD SLOT
SLOT1ï¼sSlot for SD(UHS-I/II compliant) memory card, SLOT2ï¼sMulti slot for Memory Stick Duo/SD(UHS-I compliant) memory card
Even my original Sony Alpha A1 supported Compact Flash, which was pretty much the standard at the time, as well as Memory Stick. The problem Sony had was not memory format, it was the same problem ANY camera system has when trying to woo pro photographers: lenses, and to a lesser extent accessories. A pro may have tens of thousands of dollars invested in lenses. The cost of replacing those compared to just buying the latest, greatest compatible camera body is a very high hurdle.
FOR YOU maybe. A lot of people do long drives regularly. Many more want to have the option without building their entire plan around charger locations. It must be wonderful to live in a perfect bubble where everything perfectly meets your use case, but you would be the exception. At any rate my original post was specifically about long trips, not daily driving. If I can't charge while I eat, then charging is most definitely time added to an already long trip.
Also, after following your oft repeated suggestion to just google it, I found that a lot of these chargers along the interstates are at hotels. So, can I just pull up at one of these and charge without getting a room? For that matter, what about getting off the interstate? Now, you're mostly screwed. Road trips are not just about getting from A to B.
Where are these chargers? I can't just whip out a bright orange extension cord and plug into any restaurant outlet. Now, I have to hope that anywhere along my route offers charging AND that they serve food. The infrastructure is not ready. Period. My main point is that the US has large swaths of relatively empty land where high volumes of traffic pass but where just finding gas is sometimes difficult because of the isolated area. You can forget about charging when you have signs that say "next gas 100 miles".
No doubt there will be plenty of comments about "stopping for an hour to charge on a long trip is OK" I could be wrong, but I suspect these may come from European posters. "Long trip" doesn't have quite the same meaning here. I can drive from Dallas to El Paso in about 9 hours with no stops and STILL be in Texas. That's Paris to Berlin distance (640 miles or so). In reality, there will be bathroom breaks, at least one meal, so add another 2 hours. Now, add two hours for recharge stops, assuming you can find one in the wasteland of west Texas. It adds up. I drove to Tucson Arizona a few years ago and El Paso was only HALF WAY there. I assure you even gas stations were scarce between El Paso and Tucson.
"That applies to most of the companies that you buy products and services from every day"
So because 'everyone' is doing it, we should just turn a blind eye? Just lay back and think of England? Come on... Everyone is not doing it, and when it's particularly egregious like Uber, we should drop the hammer. Uber ignores the laws it doesn't agree with, until confronted, then backs off a little if it looks like they won't win. As slowly as the wheels of justice turn, they get to rake in millions of dollars in profit before having to adjust their practices. Up until now, they've gotten away with it, but the Waymo debacle has gotten them in wayyyyy over their heads. "Oops, we won't do it again" isn't going to work this time.
Implying that the system administrator has no control over password content, which is utterly untrue. I would HOPE that any company removing or extending password resets would be doing that, if they aren't already. Where I work, passwords have to follow specific formatting and content rules and can't match old passwords (going back what I consider to be a ridiculous amount of time).
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This is the problem for most people I think. You go to Best Buy, check out the VR, kinda cringe at the price but think "it's pretty cool, maybe I'll do it". Then you find out you need to spend another $1k on a new PC (unless you got something fairly recently and can get away with just a new video card). Game over man.
I think VR may be maturing at precisely the wrong moment. PC upgrade/replacement cycles are longer than ever these days, and I don't know if VR companies will sell enough to still be around when enough people have adequate hardware.
I KNOW RIGHT??!! MS is literally forcing people to use Windows, because that will soon be the only way to run any Linux distro.
Also, the sky is falling.
I would guess that the impact was not that great. Given the state of AMD processors pre-Ryzen, I think any AMD fan that wanted one had had one for a long time. I think the larger impact was to Intel's sales. I know I was thinking about a new system late last year, and was looking at an i7. Then I remembered Ryzen and after catching up on the news it really made sense to wait. Especially since I could compare to Kaby Lake. Ryzen 5, 6 and 7 are out, and Intel has botched the i9/X release so thoroughly that it's clear they were somehow caught with their pants down and have nothing good on the near horizon. I suspect that many fence sitters like myself will pull the trigger on a Ryzen system.
It's long overdue, and I will admit I'm enjoying seeing Intel scramble after years of incremental improvements. I saw just the other day that Dell is now selling Ryzen equipped Inspiron gaming PC's. Looks like all Ryzen 7 at the moment, but it's a good sign that they didn't just restrict Ryzen to the Alienware line. Will be curious to see if they add SKUs with Ryzen 5 and 6 processors later. Prices are reasonable too.
When I get around to it, I'll get or build a Ryzen 7 box. While it's not the 'fastest' gaming CPU, it's miles ahead of my Core i5 650 and the multithreaded performance for video encoding has my mouth watering. I'm happy AMD didn't fixate on gaming performance. I'll gladly take 5-10% less raw speed in games to get massive boosts in other uses.
Still, I'm amazed at the mileage I've gotten out of my old Core system over the last 6 or 7 years... SSD, 16GB RAM and a video card upgrade every couple of years and it's only in the last year it's gotten hard to get a good speed/quality balance with graphics options at 1920x1080.
Oh jeez, get a grip. Trump is not against "immigration". What he is rightfully against are illegal immigrants (which this country is much more lenient with than most other countries), and abuses of the immigration laws. He's also against just waving through people coming from parts of the world known to harbor terrorists. On that note, he's only 'banning' people coming from specific airports within specific countries. That generally leaves the other 2398702348092384 airports around the world untouched. As far as his Chinese connections... well, we might as well shut down any company that does business with, ohhh let's say Foxconn, right?
Trumps immigration stance is actually pretty simple "we have laws, passed by administrations on both sides, let's enforce them for a change.
exactly! these factories build to spec, give them a price point, and they will build something to meet it. it's entirely possible to get good quality, and a low price from them, but it requires someone knowledgeable about the desired product to negotiate the spec, sacrificing quality or polish where it's not needed, and making sure critical pieces are not junk.
"by simply guessing that supply chains for all of their parts will be present."
I'm sure it has occurred to them, but that doesn't mean there is no risk. In most cases, a given part for traditional ICE vehicles could be made by many different suppliers. Lose a supplier, for whatever reason, and you can pretty much guarantee that another will be able to fill the void. There are considerably fewer players in the market for the kind of batteries these cars require, and a disruption could leave them with incomplete cars that they can't sell. It would be like Ford being unable to get engine blocks at any price. Remember the flooding in SE Asia a few years back that took a big bite out of hard disk production? Drive prices soared for at least a year until production got back to normal. Now flood out a major battery supplier. I think most hybrid/EV cars are priced at just about the most they can get away with. Will companies like Volvo be laying in a surplus of batteries to mitigate a loss of supply or will they stick to JIT and be screwed?
Volvo's experiment will be closely watched by rest of the auto industry I suspect.
it's so difficult that it was done with 1960's technology. the rocket science involved was solved a long time ago. the only thing missing these days is the will and the money.
"Rimmer, I'm going to pass me exams and become an officer by actually KNOWING things" - Dave Lister
as long as the primary entry point involves things like opening emails and clicking attachments, things that don't usually happen on servers, it's a lot easier to target the average consumer.
" but you can't just give a company that has nothing but concepts billions of dollars/euros to deploy a technology that hasn't even a working prototype"
Except this happens all the time in software. Not surprising someone like Musk expects it to happen with every pet hardware project he tries.
"God, stop focusing on special effects and focus on story."
fixed that for you...
If these schools and profs want to get an early look at the kinds of problems they can expect when a massive swell in IT courses happens, look no further than India. What problems do they have? How do they address them (or fail to)? Seems there are regular articles on mass cheating in Indian IT curriculum. For the sake of fairness, they could research the MSCE schools in the early 2000's. I guess my point is that as surprised as they seem to be, there is still time to get ahead of the most obvious problems if they do some research.
Your petulant fanboy rage, particularly at the end, drowns out the actual facts you presented. Try getting off the gas next time.
This could just be an epic effort to taint the intel. Just by threatening this kind of attack, they are causing fear, economic damage, civil unrest. Actually blowing up a plane is just a bonus. In the meantime, while all eyes are on the most difficult and best protected targets, they can move more easily on soft targets like concerts...
"but if somebody goes into a hardware store and buys hundreds of dollars' worth of nails using cash, that should raise red flags"
And now you're chasing the tools, which is futile. a guy with a bandsaw and some steel plate could make a pile of "nails". requires no special skills, no suspicious items, just patience. When it's over we say "Ah HAH! they use XYZ this time" and we flag XYZ. if you want to flag everything that can be used to harm people when propelled by explosive force, you're going to have a long list of common items. Guns are hard to come by in the UK? People get killed by knives and cars. These people want to kill, and they will find a way to kill, it's as simple as that.
As long as people keep dancing around the issue that they are not like us, this will never end. Some viewpoints are just not compatible and can never be reconciled. Let the middle east follow their own course. They don't HAVE to be part of the global community if they don't want to and we should stop trying to convince them.
Sony's specs on the a9 show:
MEMORY CARD SLOT SLOT1ï¼sSlot for SD(UHS-I/II compliant) memory card,
SLOT2ï¼sMulti slot for Memory Stick Duo/SD(UHS-I compliant) memory card
Even my original Sony Alpha A1 supported Compact Flash, which was pretty much the standard at the time, as well as Memory Stick. The problem Sony had was not memory format, it was the same problem ANY camera system has when trying to woo pro photographers: lenses, and to a lesser extent accessories. A pro may have tens of thousands of dollars invested in lenses. The cost of replacing those compared to just buying the latest, greatest compatible camera body is a very high hurdle.
"edge case (cross country trips)"
FOR YOU maybe. A lot of people do long drives regularly. Many more want to have the option without building their entire plan around charger locations. It must be wonderful to live in a perfect bubble where everything perfectly meets your use case, but you would be the exception. At any rate my original post was specifically about long trips, not daily driving. If I can't charge while I eat, then charging is most definitely time added to an already long trip.
Also, after following your oft repeated suggestion to just google it, I found that a lot of these chargers along the interstates are at hotels. So, can I just pull up at one of these and charge without getting a room? For that matter, what about getting off the interstate? Now, you're mostly screwed. Road trips are not just about getting from A to B.
Where are these chargers? I can't just whip out a bright orange extension cord and plug into any restaurant outlet. Now, I have to hope that anywhere along my route offers charging AND that they serve food. The infrastructure is not ready. Period. My main point is that the US has large swaths of relatively empty land where high volumes of traffic pass but where just finding gas is sometimes difficult because of the isolated area. You can forget about charging when you have signs that say "next gas 100 miles".
No doubt there will be plenty of comments about "stopping for an hour to charge on a long trip is OK" I could be wrong, but I suspect these may come from European posters. "Long trip" doesn't have quite the same meaning here. I can drive from Dallas to El Paso in about 9 hours with no stops and STILL be in Texas. That's Paris to Berlin distance (640 miles or so). In reality, there will be bathroom breaks, at least one meal, so add another 2 hours. Now, add two hours for recharge stops, assuming you can find one in the wasteland of west Texas. It adds up. I drove to Tucson Arizona a few years ago and El Paso was only HALF WAY there. I assure you even gas stations were scarce between El Paso and Tucson.
That's interesting, when I pulled the battery out of my Android phone just now, it failed to power up. I can't even google for a solution now.
what is 4chan? do they have a newsletter i can subscribe to?
If there are large numbers of 4chan users here, they are impressively restrained...
"There has never been another audio format as widely supported as MP3"
I think WAV might have the lock on this one.
"That applies to most of the companies that you buy products and services from every day"
So because 'everyone' is doing it, we should just turn a blind eye? Just lay back and think of England? Come on... Everyone is not doing it, and when it's particularly egregious like Uber, we should drop the hammer. Uber ignores the laws it doesn't agree with, until confronted, then backs off a little if it looks like they won't win. As slowly as the wheels of justice turn, they get to rake in millions of dollars in profit before having to adjust their practices. Up until now, they've gotten away with it, but the Waymo debacle has gotten them in wayyyyy over their heads. "Oops, we won't do it again" isn't going to work this time.
"The average user would use "123456"
Implying that the system administrator has no control over password content, which is utterly untrue. I would HOPE that any company removing or extending password resets would be doing that, if they aren't already. Where I work, passwords have to follow specific formatting and content rules and can't match old passwords (going back what I consider to be a ridiculous amount of time).